Posted on 02/21/2006 8:01:22 PM PST by Panerai
A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other Web sites, likely violate U.S. copyright law.
U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz ruled Friday that Perfect 10, an adult-oriented Web site featuring "beautiful natural women" in the nude, has shown that Google image search probably infringes copyright law "by creating and displaying thumbnail copies of its photographs."
The Los Angeles judge said he would award Perfect 10 a preliminary injunction against Google, and gave lawyers for both sides until March 8 to propose the injunction's wording.
Google said on Tuesday that it plans to appeal the injunction, and predicted it will have no effect on the "vast majority" of its image searches.
Perfect 10 sued Google for copyright infringement in November 2004, and then in August 2005, asked for an injunction to halt Google from allegedly copying, displaying and distributing more than 3,000 Perfect 10 photos.
The photo publisher says it's plagued by copyright pirates who pay its $25.50 monthly fee and then reproduce its copyright images on sites that are indexed by Google and incorporated in its image search feature.
In a 48-page opinion (click here for PDF), Matz agreed that Google provides "an enormous public benefit." But, he said, "existing judicial precedents do not allow such considerations to trump" copyright law.
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Rules! Rules! Rules!
Ramifications for the entire internet, including FR.
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There's some strange folk out there.
GAH!!
My eyes! Damn you, my EYES!
No Google image search would seriously impact my FR posting habits.
Well, at least you can't see post #8...
Man, I will have to visit the thread on attractive female athletes in order to calm my stomach...
LOL!!!!
"Man, I will have to visit the thread on attractive female athletes in order to calm my stomach..."
Well, your tagline won't help... hahahaha!
Here, this should help Dowd threads, CZJ pictures
Posting graphics is half of the fun...
Of course to be sure the judge had to spend 4 solid days and nights locked up in chambers examining the evidence. All in the line of duty, of course.
No!!!
Please, anything but that photo!! I'm gonna hurl!!!!!!!!!!!!!
better than the previous photo!!
Just wait for the photo spread, "LIB Gals in the SENATE" in next months Playboy
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